Winona boys soccer beats top-seeded Blake 2-1 to reach first state final
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Winona boys soccer beats top-seeded Blake 2-1 to reach first state final
Latest booking: Morgan A Christenson · Nov 5, 12:26 PM
Record November rain soaks the Northland, with 2.8 inches in Superior in three days
Latest booking: Thomas Lee Schroeder · Nov 5, 11:41 AM
Marathon County voters back Kroll for Assembly and Xiong for state treasurer in Tuesday's election
Latest booking: Rachel Lee Bisping · Nov 5, 6:16 AM
Pleasant Prairie police use Grappler net to stop fleeing vehicles
Latest booking: Karan Terrell Rush · Nov 5, 12:47 PM

Unofficial results from Tuesday show former Marathon County Board member John Kroll winning the 85th Assembly seat and Weston resident Yee Leng Xiong elected state treasurer, while Sheriff Chad Billeb and Clerk of Courts Kelly Schremp won new terms unopposed.
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Arrest records only — not convictions. Everyone pictured is presumed innocent until proven guilty.

No. 5 seed Winona upset defending champion and top seed Blake 2-1 in the Class AA state semifinals Wednesday at U.S. Bank Stadium, sending the Winhawks to the first state championship game in program history.

Top-seeded UW-La Crosse, 18-1 on the season, hosts sixth-seeded UW-Oshkosh at 6 p.m. Thursday at Veterans Memorial Field in a WIAC Tournament semifinal, with a spot in Saturday's championship game on the line.

Health workers who have spent years building trust with Amish families in southwest Wisconsin are bringing care and vaccines directly to them as the state's measles outbreak, its worst in decades, passes 400 cases.

Monroe County voters backed Mike Krause for sheriff with 80% of the vote in Tuesday's Nov. 3 election, ahead of write-in candidate Wes Revels, the current sheriff, in local results reported Wednesday.

The Wisconsin Lottery says an All or Nothing ticket sold at a Kwik Trip on East Main Street in Onalaska hit for $100,000 over the weekend.

Winona State will honor its seniors Saturday when it hosts the University of Mary at Altra Federal Credit Union Stadium in the Warriors' final home game of the 2026 season.















Arrest records only — not convictions. Everyone pictured is presumed innocent until proven guilty.

A slow-moving storm dropped 2.80 inches of rain on Superior from Nov. 2 to Nov. 4, part of a record-setting wet start to November across northwest Wisconsin and northeast Minnesota, with cooler and windier weather now moving in.

Two people died Wednesday evening when a vehicle traveling the wrong way on Highway 53 near Minong crashed into an oncoming vehicle, according to initial information from responders.

Voters in northwest Wisconsin returned Democratic Sen. Jeff Smith to office on Nov. 3 and flipped Assembly seats in the River Falls and Menomonie districts, as Democrats won control of both chambers of the Legislature statewide.

Toys "R" Us will open a 5,000-square-foot store just off the food court at Oakwood Mall in Eau Claire within the next two weeks, ahead of the peak holiday shopping season.

Eau Claire sound engineer Lena Sutter has launched Spoko Studios, an acoustically treated at-home recording, mixing and mastering space built in part with a $5,000 grant supporting women in music production.

State Sen. Jeff Smith of Brunswick turned back a challenge from Eau Claire County Board member Michele Magadance Skinner, and his party flipped control of the Wisconsin Senate on Tuesday.

Arrest records only — not convictions. Everyone pictured is presumed innocent until proven guilty.

A Wausau man facing more than a dozen charges tied to a high-speed chase in Lincoln County in late May is scheduled for a plea hearing on Dec. 11.

Door County voters elected Curt Vandertie as their new sheriff and Shannon Lauder as clerk of circuit court on Nov. 3, while a Sturgeon Bay school referendum passed and a Southern Door referendum narrowly failed.

Green Bay Metro firefighters freed a person who was trapped in sand up to their chest Wednesday afternoon on Atkinson Drive, in a rescue that brought in the department's Urban Search and Rescue team.

A 79-year-old Stevens Point man died from injuries in a single-vehicle crash Wednesday afternoon on Sunset Drive in the town of Dewey, according to the Portage County Sheriff's Office.

A curling open house in Wisconsin Rapids, a chili feed fundraiser in Biron and a benefit dinner in Nekoosa for Jeremiah's Crossing lead the list of things to do around Wisconsin Rapids from Nov. 5-8.

Mini Rapids mini golf will close at the end of 2026 and Milltown Coffee has closed inside Mid-State Technical College, while Taco Bell has reopened as a standalone restaurant on Eighth Street South in Wisconsin Rapids.






Arrest records only — not convictions. Everyone pictured is presumed innocent until proven guilty.

Pleasant Prairie police began using the Grappler last month, becoming only the second department in Wisconsin to deploy the net system meant to end vehicle pursuits more safely.

Unofficial results from Tuesday's election gave Democrats control of the Wisconsin Legislature and Congress, while Kenosha County voters split closely in the governor's race and backed Republicans in several local contests.

Kenosha County will mark Veterans Day with ceremonies, breakfasts, school programs and community events from Thursday, Nov. 5, through Wednesday, Nov. 11.

Fans lined up outside the Best Buy at 11840 71st St. in Kenosha on Wednesday night for the Nintendo Switch 2 remake of The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, released at 11 p.m. Central.

Democrat Mitchell Berman defeated Republican incumbent Bryan Steil on Tuesday in Wisconsin's 1st Congressional District, flipping a seat Republicans had held for more than 30 years.

Democrat Trevor Jung defeated Republican Jim Croft on Tuesday for Wisconsin's 21st State Senate District, flipping a seat Republicans had held for more than a decade.
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